The younger version bends less willingly
The new iPad Pro 13 is quite easy not only to bend, but to break with your bare hands, as the famous blogger JerryRigEverything has already shown. Now he has tested the strength of the younger 11-inch model.
It’s worth starting with the fact that the author tested the iPad Pro 11 in the version with nanocoating. And it turned out that it scratches much easier than regular protective glass. If for glass you need something with a hardness of 6 on the Mohs scale, then the nanocoating is scratched by a material with a hardness of 4 on the same scale. In fact, material with a hardness of 3 leaves some marks, but they can then be erased, but a harder one already scratches completely. This should be taken into account by those who are going to buy an iPad Pro with just such a screen.
As for the strength of the tablet itself, the younger new product is stronger, and noticeably. The blogger ended up breaking the device, but he put in noticeably more effort.
In this case, the tablet breaks in the same place as the older version, that is, in the area of the USB-C port, since very thin strips of metal remain there, which are the weak point.